A WEALTHY business consultant who worked for some of the
world's top companies was last night branded Britain's sickest
pervert.

Internet expert Gavin McManus, 39, lived in a well-to-do suburb and
appeared to be a respectable businessman who flew round the globe giving
advice to giants like Sony, Philips and Shell.

But behind the curtains of his pounds 250,000 home, McManus was the
ringleader of a gang of paedophiles who plied young boys with drugs and
then sexually abused them.

As sharp-suited McManus began a life sentence for an appalling
range of sex crimes, one of the cops who nailed him said: "He is
one of the most depraved paedophiles we have ever come
across."Nothing would stop him in his quest for young boys."

McManus, who earned pounds 80,000 a year, teamed up with husband
and wife Alan and Carol Newbury after meeting Alan on a nudist beach and
realising they had the same depraved interests.

For two years he ...

TARGETED at least five boys aged between nine and 14.

FED them Ecstasy and the "poppers" sex drug amyl nitrate so they were unable to resist his twisted advances.

FILMED the sickening sexual scenes, including rape, and broadcast
them round the world on the Internet.

MADE children as young as nine watch group sex between adults.

Intelligent and well-spoken McManus, of Canterbury, Kent,
befriended a 13-year-old and gave him drugs before showing him
pornographic videos.

He made him take part in group sex orgies with the other twisted
couple.

The lad's mind became so corrupted he then helped McManus
"groom" four other boys aged nine to 14 for a sickening
catalogue of abuse.